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The geometry of nilpotent varieties via subbundles of the cotangent bundle

Let G be a simple algebraic group with flag variety G/B. The Springer resolution is the moment map from the cotangent bundle of G/B to the (dual of the) Lie algebra g of G. The cohomology of the fiber...

Collective cell migration in biology and medicine

Abstract: Collective cell migration is a commonly recurring theme in biology and medicine, with examples in developmental biology, wound healing, and disease. For example, in solid tumours, new blood ...

Is Basketball Scoring Just a Random Walk?

Abstract: Watching basketball is nearly the same as watching repeating coin tossings! By analyzing recently available data from recent National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball seasons, basketb...

Multilingual Natural Language Understanding: how can a machine understand (not just transform) text in any language?

Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has seen an explosion of interest in recent years, with many industrial applications relying on key technological developments in the field. However, Natura...

On the two-dimensional KPZ and Stochastic Heat Equation

We consider the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation (KPZ) and the multiplicative Stochastic Heat Equation (SHE) in two space dimensions, driven by with space-time white noise. These singular PDEs are "critic...

Estimating the interaction graph of stochastic neural dynamics

We address the question of statistical model selection for a class of stochastic models of biological neural nets.Models in this class are systems of interacting chains with memory of variable length....

Ergodicity for Langevin dynamics with singular potentials

Abstract: We discuss Langevin dynamics of N particles on R^d interacting through a singular repulsive potential, such as the Lennard-Jones potential, and show that the system converges to the unique i...

Random walks with local memory

The theme of this talk is walks in a random environment of "signposts" altered by the walker. I'll focus on three related examples: 1. Rotor walk on Z^2. Your initial signposts are independent with th...

Uniqueness and non-uniqueness phenomena for the transport equation in R^d

Given d ≥ 1, T > 0 and a vector field b: [0,T] × R^d → R^d , we study the problem of uniqueness of weak solutions to the associated transport equation ∂_t u + b·∇u = 0 where u: [0,T]×R^d → R is an ...